update
2004-09-14 at 10:37 a.m.

Okay okay sorry. I’ve tried to update a few times but the server has been too busy for me. In fact it’s too busy right now and I am actually writing this in word.

So I’m engaged. HA! It rocks. Man I’m crazy about this guy.

I guess I should write how we became engaged:

I had just passed my accreditation exam that morning and was on an extreme high! After happy hour drinks with co-workers we went home to make dinner to fill up my excited belly. I kept on making trips from the kitchen into the dining room and when I finally sat down I noticed this amazingly carved metal salt box next to my plate. I look over to my left and Luke is kneeling down next to my chair. I open up the box and inside is my fortune from Chinese the night before. It read "prepare to receive something special". Underneath that was a beautiful silver ring with turquoise inlay. So then Luke said some really sweet stuff about how I make everyday wonderful and how he would feel honored to spend everyday for the rest of his life with me. So I said yes. And then I was so excited I couldn't eat anymore. Yay

So a few things have happened since then. I was never the type of girl that thought about her wedding a lot as a little girl. I was more interested in playing Legos than marrying my Barbies to each other. But we bought some magazines and stuff and I started to get all excited.

Well of course that was not allowed to last. Luke and I were thinking of getting married in St. Louis since this is where we live and when most of our family flew in they could just stay here, as opposed to renting a car and driving up to Springfield. Well that wasn’t cool with my mother.

Also not cool was the fact that neither Luke nor I feel comfortable getting married in a church seeing as we’re not religious in the least. Well my mother works for God and is not happy with this decision.

There’s way more drama involved here that I’m not mentioning because it’s a lot better now and I don’t want to think about all the horrible things that my mother was saying via e-mail. I can just say that I went home from work a few days bawling because of the mean things she was saying.

The gist of that was that she was shooting down every idea we were having for the wedding and treating me like I was the most inconsiderate person because I actually considered getting married on a Friday.

Argh. Okay. Just getting upset again. Must not think about it now.

So Luke and I are getting married. Most likely it will be in Springfield over the Memorial Day weekend next year. I’m actually going up to Springfield this Thursday night after work to look at places. Then I’ll look at a few more Friday morning before hustling back down here for work Friday afternoon. I’m trying to decide whether or not to have Luke come with me. I think that my mom feels that Luke’s a bad influence because he encourages me to do what I want. Whereas my mother is of the school that my wedding should reflect what SHE wants. Very fun!

So that’s about it right now. I have just been so worn out over all this stuff with my mom that I haven’t wanted to write about it because it really makes me upset. But she never stops. Even though we have made it clear that we are not getting married in a church she is still sending us the brochures for the weekend retreats and stuff that catholic couples have to go to before getting married in the church.

Makes me want to scream.

Okay. Back to work now.